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France

THE CHINA' · MAIL;, .

7 Mister 1953)

THE JUDGEMENT OF WASHINGTON

BERTRAND

SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1955.

LOW

World Cupright by untungement with the Manchester Guarulan

William Hickey

AT HOME WITH CHELSEA IN PANTO TIME

WAS

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London. cities. Heavy dark woods. An home Eastern carpet. A desk and un

ground. My first call was at Chelaca TowXI Hall. Not to pay the But to go to a party

Imposing chair,

A waiter brought drinks. Never have I drunk a cocktali

1

Chelsea.

rates. with more pleasure. given those drinks came out

ratepayer In Arst rates!

om 助

I hope

of the

by the mayor for the resident pantomime to be The mayor, Mr Guy Edmis given at Chelsea.

ton, was very proper in his dark wonderful suit and chain of office. But he It was rather

had

look. a guizzical, amused to climb the stairs-and not I thought he looked like care. I remember going R.A.F. type. I wasn't wrong. there after the war in He was a Battle of Britain pilot. search of a fat.

I asked to be put on

the

housing list.

On the rates? The Womati whs awfully polite, But 1 could

sho thought i was rather mad.

now realise I was,

KCC

Now I was greeted by "Up the stairs and to the right, sir.

The mayor's parlour might have been the mayor's parlour and hundred u

boroughs

in

RUSSELL'S

MESSAGE TO MANKIND

AM speaking on this occasion

ression not as a

penn nor as a member of a Western democracy but JEN a human being, a mem her of the species of Bit whose continued existence is in doubt.

The world is full of conflicle Jews and Arabs. Indions and

1k is tanks.

white

nestres in Africa.

mgh:

and,

:hadowing all minor

Ove conflicts,

mauisin

honisni

who

Mope

st

such

want you, if you can, Jisure mment and consider

desire.

one

Teelings

At the start of a year which may prove the turning point in human affairs a year which could send mankind the way of the dinosaurs or forward to peace and a prosperity yet undreamed of--the China Mail asked Bertrand Russell, almost certainly the outstanding philosopher of the twentieth century. for a message to the people of the world.

He consented to give a message "saying such things This is it. as ought to appeal to all human beings."

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De wien race.

out of many

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anu

accommodation

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They are in their late thirties now, most of the survivora of the battle. And however respan- Bible the positions they now bring to them A

hold they

certain on

They

typo

be a special as long as they live.

His wife Sylvin is of the same generalion. She was a W.A.A.F. officer. And though she is now ot the charming, elegant wife the Mayor of Chelaca, she also retains something of the wa.

Something very fine.

AD understanding, a syrapathy that was born of the ordeal.

And then I spoke to the town clerk, Mr John Klishin. I have losumed to respect town clerks. They are always quiet, modest

But, muko no about it, they are the rulers of our boroughs and cillies.

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But-power

misiake

A town clerkship is a typical British Institution. On paper they-the clerks, a modest titiè -have little power. In fact they have much.

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I naked him why Chelsea was, with H-bombs, not only among

borough, supporting the belligerents but also among | pantomime at the Chelsen the neutrals, I should wish this Pulaco. report presented to the govern- "Well," said Mr Kitchin, "my ments of all the great powers wife and I love pantomine, with ап invitation to express The management approached me their agreement or disagree-and said they were thinking of ment with its findings. I think putting on IA old-fashioned

It possible that in this way all panto.

the great powers could be led to "So I said I would see what agree that a world war can no

no I could do to get the mayor's longer serve the purposes of any support--providing it was a real of them since it is likely to old-fashioned pantomine, with- exterminate felend and foe out all the variety acts.

equally, and neutrals likewise.

As goological time is reckoned, man has 30 far existed for 2

short very

period- million

What years at most.

has he

the

achieved, especially during

lest six thousand years, is some- thing utterly new in the history of the cosmos, so far at least as

Kun

we are acquainted with it.

For countless ages the

icon waxed use and set, the und waned, the stars shone in the night, but it was only with

the coming of man that thest

great

many children,” he con- "have said half-way Unued, through a

isn't panto, "This anything like the story you have told me, mummy.'

the I was so immersed conversation that I was rather overwhelmed when I turned round.

Aladdin—and lamp

Standing by the gas-fre was with

lamp.

It was Miss Voles Protty- sud a Goon as I BW ber knew that before I left I should only be saying, "You are not pretty by name."

between strukkie

country would continue to have nght be diffused, but the best thing vine is that the term "man- anti-Com-

and the only way authorities

abstract. Inhabitants, in kind' feels vague and UNERÁRIOUS Almost everybody saying that a war with H-bombs People

in by which I could make this realise scarcely Teally conscious has

probable would be to proniole s is quite likely to put an end to imagination that the danger is strong feelings about

spme kol of to senselves and their children these issues. But I

and their grandchildren and not between the powers on opposite to *ct It is feared that if many H.

only to a dimly apprehended sides of the Iron Curtain, for the bombs are used there will be try to a bumanity.

personally um, of course, not yourself universal death-sudden only

And so they hope that per- neutral in my feelings and only as a member of a biological for a fortunate minority but for

should not

10 allowed to

wish be

see the species which has had A

the majority a slow torture of hapa war may

denger of war averted by continue, provided mosteen markable history, and whose disease and disintegration.

I am abject submission of the West, weapons are prohibited. dripperranED SVOJO of us can

this hope 13 Muscy.

But us human being I have things were understood. In the Aladdin herself, complete I will give a few instances afroid

to remember that if the issuos Sir John Slessor Whalever agreements not to use

world of astronomy and In be_ween East and West are to 3 shall try to say no single (a British wartime Air

Force 11-bombs had been reached

be decided in any manner that in the little world of the atom, word which should appeal to eblet) who can speak with un- ime of peace, they would no

can give any possible satisfac- man has unveiled secrets which hove been thought un- group rather than to -

longer be considered binding in rivalled authority from his ex-

time of war and both sides tion to anybody, whether Com- night warfare has would set to work to manufac- whether Asian or other. All equally are in per per

periences

ist discoverable. of

munist or

Communist, and, if the peri is understood said: "A world war in this day woh

or European or war there is hope that

11-bombs us soon as they may and

general would age

if one side American,

or whether black out. For endtertively

We have it. avert

And he has gone ou broke ve sulcite. to tears to think in a new way to state: "11

รางแส the bombs and white, then these issues manufactured

to see her standing in her silver Never has and We have to learn to ask our-

únel dress and pan.o plumes no should nire never will make any sense try- the other did not, the side that not be decided by war.

to wish this be would i-

and alongside the mayor In his understood on both sides of the religion to abolish any particular manufactured them

have slightly pompous parlour. Iron Curtain. It is emphatically

shown a sublimity of feeling have it under- not enough to

the species worth There is no doubt that as the stood on one side only. I think which makes

preserving. Is all this to end in war generation pushes is way neutrals since they are not trivial horror because so tow are through

of pro- positions caught in our tragic dilemma able

Lo think of man rather minence that it will give ON both atdes of the Iron can, if they will, bring about

than

of this or that group

of own special favour to public on both sides. political this realisation Curtain there are

1150. I should like to see the

one or men? emphasise obstacles 10

is our race 10 destituto more neutral powers appoint a

It is a generation that respects wisdom, 60

Incapable of Im-traditions — that mean commission of experts who

partial love, no

blind even

to thing. But laughs at much of should all be neutrals to draw

self-what used to pass

under name of digaily.

L

be

Lure

10 weapon of war. What we have evitably be victorious.

got to abolish is war,"

selves not what steps can Do log taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there are no longer such steps. ask

the Professor Adrian, who is The question we have ourselves in:

English nuthority what steps can be lending

miliury nervo taken to

physiology, recenly em- prevent contest of which the issue must phasised the same point in his

address

President of the British Association.

be disastrous to all sides?

More Powerful

By

un

An Analogy

He said: We must foce the des.ructive character of future

If either side were to an possibility that repeated atomic war.

would on explosions will lead to a degree nounce that it

of

no

general radioactivity which account resort to war, it would E general publie und even no one can tolerate or escape." be diploma ically at the mercy many men In poaltions of And he added: "Unless we are of the other side. authority have not realised what would be involved in a ready to give up som war with hydrogen bon

old loyalties we may

svec.

of our Each side for the sake of self-

continue be forced preservation must

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into fight which might end say that there are provocations Each that it will not endure. The general public still thinks the hum:n in terms of the obliteration of Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip side may long for an accommo- ellies. It is understood that the Joubert says: "With the advent dation but neither side dare ex- new bombs are more powerful of the hydrogen bomb it would press this longing convincingly.

The position is analagous than the old and that while one appear that the human race has A - bomb could

obliterate arrived at a point where it must that of the ductlists in Hiroshims, one 11-bomb could abandon war as a continuation times. obliterate the largest cities such of policy or accept the post-

London and bility of total destruction.

As Now York. Moscow.

No doubt in an H-bomb war

great cities would be obliterated.

But this is one of the minor disasters that would have to be faced.

I

Most Gloomy

COULD prolong such quota-

tions indefinitely, warnings have boon uttered by

to

an

former

No doubt it frequently hap- pened that each of the duellists feared death and desired accommodation but neither could say so since, if he did, he would be thought a coward. capes The The

only hope in such

by friends of was latervention

parues accommodation

Many both

suggesting

an

to which both

to

If everybody in London, New eminent men of science and by could agree to at the moment. York and Moscow were exter- authorities in military strategy. This is an exact analogy minated, the world might in the None of them will say that the the present position of the pro- course of a few centuries re worst results are certain.

Lagonists on either side of the cover from the blow. But we What they do my is that

now know, especially since the these results are possible and Curtain,

If an agreement making war

that

can

supposed.

Bikini

that hydrogen no one can be sure

be reached, it test,

they improbable is to bomba con gradually spread will not be realised.

will have to be by the friendly destruction over a much wider

I have not found that the offices of neutrals who area than had been

good views of experts on this ques speak of the disastrousness of It is stated on very good

now lon depend in any degree upon war without being sccused of authority that a bomb can now their politics or prejudices; they advocating a policy of "apperso be manufactured which wil be

depend only so for as my re- ment." thousand times twenty-five

searches have revealed upon the nu that powerful

which

extent of the particuler expert's

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Med Hiroshima. Such knowledge. I have found that

it exploded near the the men who know most am

under water sends radioactive particles into the most gloomy.

Aust.

A Commission

THE neutrals hayo overy right,

Here then is the problem Taves from the narrowest con- upper air. They sink gradually

stark sideration of self-interest, to do and reach the surface of the which I present to you, earth in the form of a deadly and dreadful and inescapable: whatever lies in their power to

Shall

World we put an end to the prevent the outbrook of human race, or shall man re-war tor, it such a war dies It was this dust which infecind nounce war? People will not break out, it is highly prefable flahermen and face this alternative becametral countries #long with the that all the inhabitanta vi the Japannee their catch of nah, although they is so dificult to abolish war. ware putaide what the United The abolition of war will de- set of rowokind will perdida Stator experts lasted to be mand distasteful limitations off 1 wero la control of, a the danger MODA.

national sovereignty. But what neutral oernment, I should: No dos knows how widely perhaps impedes undermanding certainly coomdar As y para much Talijai vadinapilys particles of the situation store thats may- „mount duty to use to di

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